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Pointing to a Nike Flyknit Racer -- the lime-green trainers, worn by many athletes during London 2012, that use a...

The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer...

A new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine could pave the way to an era...

Damaged or diseased organs may someday be healed with an injection of blood vessel cells, eliminating the need for donated...

Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease found in more than 100 countries, has no cure and no vaccine. One reason...

Scientists have revealed nearly 100 genetic variants implicated in the development of cancers such as breast cancer and prostate cancer....

University of South Florida researchers have suggested a new view of how stem cells may help repair the brain following...

It's like pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Researchers have reached inside the brain of a rat and pulled...

A research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University of Science have successfully regenerated fully functional bioengineered salivary...

Scientists have sequenced the genomes of nearly 6,900 organisms, but they know the functions of only about half of the...

The membranes surrounding and inside cells are involved in every aspect of biological function. They separate the cell's various metabolic...

Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives -- about 30 years -- and stay...

Army scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) and academic collaborators are conducting research on organoids (small swatches of...

Similar to using Python or Java to write code for a computer, chemists soon could be able to use a...

In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons...

Scientists succeeded in producing 580 mg of gasoline per litre of cultured broth by converting in vivo generated fatty acid....

Scientists routinely seek to reprogram bacteria to produce proteins for drugs, biofuels and more, but they have struggled to get...

Our brains give us the remarkable ability to make sense of situations we've never encountered before -- a familiar person...

Chemists from Nijmegen have developed a catalyst that binds to DNA, slides over it and splits the molecule in particular...

Working with mice, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that weeks of treatment with a repurposed FDA-approved drug halted the growth...